Quotes About Perception

White does not exist in nature.

...Therefore it is said: 'The perception of a phenomenon IS the perception of the Universal Nature, since phenomena and Mind are one and the same.'

By nature, I am a materialist... It is exactly these impingements upon our sense of touch and so forth that I'm interested in.

Art is nature as seen through a temperament.

I always entreat the good Lord to give me my childhood back, that is to say, to grant that I may see nature and render it like a child, without prejudice.

I never make studies from nature. They would get in the way. I make use of my mind.

The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.

Seek art and abstraction in nature by dreaming in the presence of it.

To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, its only because we havent been able to understand it yet.

The realities of nature surpass our most ambitious dreams.

We perceive nature through the senses, which give us images of forms of colour, sounds etc. A form which exists only in relation to another form on its own, it does not exist.

Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.

There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food.

Bring awareness to the many subtle sounds of nature - The rustling of leaves in the wind, Raindrops falling, The humming of an insect, The first birdsong at dawn.

To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

..to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art.

To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one.

Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable

The nature of search engines is that they can make a major issue out of something small that no person would otherwise be able to find.

Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.